Word: cayley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Courage, Inc. was started by Dr. Camille Kereszturi Cayley, a Hungarian-born pediatrician who led an active life until, in 1952, she fell twelve feet from a porch while sawing a tree branch. In a few seconds she became paralyzed from the neck down. While learning to live with her disability at Manhattan's famed Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, she made some professional observations about other handicapped patients. Her conclusion: without help and encouragement, many would go home and just give up. She got together several patients, founded Courage, Inc. on the same principle as Alcoholics Anonymous...
...cities have already asked to set up chapters. Courage's President Philip Guba, 35, a corporation lawyer who caught polio in Indonesia 2½years ago, is currently working with Courage's 21 directors to broaden the organization. Their goal: a nationwide Courage, Inc. As for Founder Cayley, she has become a practicing psychiatrist, although still confined to a wheelchair, and at 53 is busier than ever. She now drives her own car, leads an active social life. Once the women's long-distance swimming champion of Hungary, she can still swim a three-quarter-mile-wide...
...CAYLEY Rochester...